On Aug 21, 2006, at 6:41 PM, backyard wrote:
--- Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
backyard wrote:
I'm having problems installing GRUB on my Dell
Optiplex GX1 pentium3 500 BIOS A10. I'm setting
this
server up for a friend and not having GRUB isn't
the
biggest deal; I just wanted to have a nice
inappropriate boot image when they turn it on...
It will boot from a floppy, but installing it to
the
hard drive seems to corrupt the root filesystem.
It
claims to install fine and during boot will load
grub_stage1.5 from the disk, but instead of
loading
stage2 it begins to boot the system, but the
console
font has become completely corrupted, and I'm not
certain if anything else has. It will boot, and
appears to function but the font is messed up.
Has anyone else had issues with the particular
Dell
and GRUB? I've never had problems with GRUB before
this machine. I'm at a loss, any help would be
appreciated. It would be nice to get GRUB on this
thing, but if I can't oh well.
-brian
FreeBSD folks tend not to use Grub, but some of us
do use it as opposed
to FreeBSD's bootmanager.
Please post the steps you use to install grub and
the output those steps
give you, and your grub.conf.
-Garrett
#menu.lst
default 0
timeout 7
fallback 1
#password --md5 some kind of password that is encypted
splashimage (fd0)/boot/grub/opt/smurffed.xpm.gz
title BSD
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel /boot/loader
title Hold the Phone
halt
title Reset me
reboot
title Floppy Boot
lock
root (fd0)
chainloader
#EOF menu.lst
here is my menu.lst off my grub install floppy. this
was created by building grub 0.97 from ports on my HP
Kayak. the floppy was then prepared as below:
fdformat /dev/fd0
newfs -O1 -n /dev/fd0
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub/opt
I then copied the grub files from the
/usr/local/share/grub/i386-freebsd if memory serves me
correct to the /mnt/boot/grub folder. then copied in
my splashimages, then prepared menu.lst as described.
I then ran grub and setup the floppy to boot grub.
now to install on a system I:
mkdir -p /boot/grub/opt
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt; cp -R /mnt/boot/grub /boot/grub
change menu.lst as required to reference hardrives or
different boot options like a windows partition or
linux or whatever needs to be started up.
boot the system with the floppy and go to grub
console.
make sure I can
find /boot/grub/menu.lst
then...
root (hd0,0,a) # or whatever
setup (hd0) # again depends
and usually I take the floppy out, reboot, and grub
asks me what I want to boot up.
as far as the exact output from grub I don't know, but
it didn't give any errors. it just said:
checking for /boot/grub/menu.lst.... found
installing stage1.... success
installing stage1_5.... success
installing stage2..... success
the typical everything is ok message. I have heard in
later reading that a missing splashimage can mess
things up, I will have to make sure I remembered to
change the root for the image to the harddrive. But I
have also read that this just happens sometimes with
grub and certain machines. this is the only time I've
seen it happen.
I personally love me some grub. it just makes things
easier in my world; at least usually.
-brian
Ok, it seems like your installation process at least is ok; perhaps
the location of the installed grub is incorrect though. Could you do
the following?
1. Run fdisk and verify that the partition you actually have your
root installed on is the first one.
2. Replace all references to just "/" (root) in all partition names
to the proper device name, plus root, e.g.:
root (hd0,0,a)
kernel (hd0,0,a)/boot/loader
I know it seems a bit redundant, but it's saved me from some issues
with installing grub on my linux box.
3. Remove the splashedimage reference. It's referring to your floppy
and if the floppy isn't there I could see some possible issues
occurring with booting grub, as you mentioned earlier in the email.
-Garrett
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